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I'm writing XPRS for off-grid conversations without internet

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2026-09-05 08:53:04 UTC

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Because earlier they forced users into literal spyware phones from Google and now they give you the option of using hardware from long time NSA contractors.
You get two choices now.

2026-08-25 05:52:12 UTC

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Gone are the times of wokeness. Enjoy the empty platform, Jeff.

2026-08-25 05:46:12 UTC

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That's great. Palm was a computer ahead of its time and very efficient battery-wise.

2026-08-22 05:43:34 UTC

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Well.. Are you a shill or not?

2026-07-13 19:52:05 UTC

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"Look what they have to do for mimicking a portion of our power!"

2026-07-12 10:20:24 UTC

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The main difficulty was always how to enable others get data from your device.
We seriously need to rethink the dependency to major relays with domain names. In the future, perhaps relays can be self-elected within a pool of candidates based on factors like bandwidth, uptime and storage. So that when they disappear for whatever reason, the network and clients simply pick another candidate and keep moving.
Up to this day we don't have clever ways to ask for a file across the available relays. We either manually ping any domain that was manually added by ourselves as relay, or we instintively go for the big relays in the hope that our data is kept there.
Time to build some indexers and global DHT for NOSTR.

2026-07-11 15:54:39 UTC

The next step in NOSTR evolution is where each user is a relay.
An evolution where each participant hosts the text and files published by itself and by those users that sees value in storing/sharing for the future.
This won't easily happen on this current world dominated by a few central relays where everyone connects that hold no guarantee your data will be there for 10 years, or when they do it is likely to be sponsored by some government agency.
There is a way out of that.
I'll be preseting the result next month.

2026-07-11 09:41:31 UTC

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So it was like a mini-DVD? Because the CD's of that time would go to 650MB on the usual size. Quite remarkable, especially now that buying storage based on memory chips is expensive again.

2026-07-11 09:37:09 UTC

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How many megabytes would fit on that bad boy?

2026-07-10 11:14:40 UTC

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The irony is too strong on this one.. 😂

2026-07-08 11:34:59 UTC

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Monero+Cake wallet fixed that a long time ago.

2026-07-08 11:32:31 UTC

Informação inútil do dia:
Em latim a palavra "parvo" quer dizer "pequeno" ou "insignificante"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parvo

2026-07-08 11:27:41 UTC

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Gente doente vai sempre aparecer, é realmente pior quando fala a nossa língua porque nos deixa ficar mal. Há pouco a fazer, infelizmente.

2026-07-08 11:20:30 UTC

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As curiosity, the Portuguese were the first to make trade contact with the Japanese in the XV century. They initially brought and sold rifles to the Japanese and in a few years the Japanese were already up to speed and building their own.
Nothing really changed. We in the West just seem to forget our own history too often and then getting surprised when the East can compete on equal (and often better) terms.

2026-07-08 11:14:47 UTC

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I'd normally be upset but since they used "please" then I guess its OK.

2026-07-02 21:04:39 UTC

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The question is how to make it simpler. The way I see it, the path for mass adoption can happen through Android since they are plentiful and energy efficient when compared to laptops. There is a way to run nodes on Android but this isn't "easy": https://github.com/CryptoGrampy/android-termux-monero-node
I can make the install simple and easy and then the other problem is storage. It will need 100GB as absolute minimum and the constant writes are problematic on the durability of SD cards.

2026-07-02 07:59:38 UTC

A study on the monero network shows that 16000 nodes are associated to government spying and only 3000 are outside of that: https://probelab.io/blog/peering-into-privacy-a-deep-dive-into-the-monero-network-topology/

2026-06-20 15:49:04 UTC

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Can't relate. My banking goes well on browsers even from the phone itself.

2026-06-20 09:01:57 UTC

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Use banks with web pages, solved.
There is zero reason for the bank apps to be so strict when their browser sites aren't until you understand that it is the same kind of people behind Google, Apple and Microsoft that also run the banks.

2026-06-19 16:59:08 UTC

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LineageOS and any android becomes better.
Zero reasons to use gov-friendly hardware and gov-sponsored android distros.

2026-06-19 11:56:44 UTC

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Show verifiable evidence, shill.

2026-06-19 08:32:36 UTC

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I disagree with anything that has transparent transactions since they will be used to persecute people but you are correct that NOSTR is open for everyone.
We might criticize each other and in the end also have to accept the plurality of options.

2026-06-19 07:46:12 UTC

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Provide evidence.

2026-06-18 12:11:23 UTC

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Doesn't matter whatever land where they isn't mandatory, you know it quite well.
So far there is zero verifiable evidence they aren't government sponsored. In case you disagree, show verifiable evidence otherwise.
Not my fault that you got vaccinated and believe in government ops.

2026-06-18 08:50:56 UTC

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Infelizmente essa fedcoin só é promovida com o objectivo de completamente desvirtuar o significado de criptomoedas.
O objectivo foi sempre desde o início garantir a separação entre governo e um sistema financeiro. Para isso é necessário existir privacidade, é necessário poder fazer transacções sem receio de perseguição governamental porque "transferes dinheiro para uma causa errada".
Existem 3 tipos de pessoas a apoiarem essa fedcoin: Aqueles que são pagos para isso, aqueles que percebem pouco de tecnologia e para eles é uma coisa quase religiosa e aqueles que pouco percebem e apenas seguem o que outros dois tipos de pessoas lhes recomendam fazer.
Monero existe, é usada em larga parte do mundo apesar de toda a oposição governamental e nunca verás nenhum desses shills a falarem de forma positiva sobre essa moeda. As coisas são óbvias, né.

2026-06-18 08:45:03 UTC

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It is the same things repeated by other cybersec experts since years at this point.
They keep posting glamorous blogs all the time and every single time on the comments you will find someone mentioning the obvious, which they'll either ignore completely or fail to provide evidence in regards to basic stuff like who is paying for all that marketing.
These things are recurring on spyware like Signal, Tor and a few others.
Usually takes years of insistence and in some cases they only drop the illusions when funding is threatned be cut: https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia
The pattern is always the same, they won't disclose financial statements nor detail who the "donors" of those yearly millions are, compare that to other open source and cybersec projects where the funding origins are clearly published.
Tiresome because tomorrow they'll again publish new blogs and make a big party to fool yet a few more naíve people, so we'll just (again) have to remind that it is a shill operation.

2026-06-18 08:37:10 UTC

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Sure, after years of forcing people into literal spyware device and now joining hands with the number one hardware contractor of the NSA plus the complete hidden information about where the millions they are receive are coming.
You demand they admit openly to be government funded. You know what? It was years and years of the same thing on Signal (which this project also recommends) until they finally admited after some 14 years.
Get out of here shill. You have no power at this place.

2026-06-17 11:04:37 UTC

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Sure, take a good look on the funding reports from them.

2026-06-17 10:42:07 UTC

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Jumping from the hot pot straight into the fire.
Never recommend that spyware Android distribution to anyone minimally concerned about privacy. It akin to recommend people using Tor or Signal and they end up using gov-sponsored spyware.
Recommend LineageOS, SailfishOS or something else that isn't compromised.

2026-06-17 10:39:13 UTC

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It seems a web browser can be installed, just made more difficult to get it there.
The flip phone effect is good when it reduces the habit of doom scrolling endless youtube shorts.

2026-06-17 10:17:26 UTC

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Cool but overpriced for those outside US salaries. Anyways it looks like a good machine, especially because it avoids Android underneath.

2026-06-17 10:12:53 UTC

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I follow his work since years, every now and then write him an email to update on what I've been doing. His stance his mostly on the human side of development, to use the brain to understand the problems and solve them by yourself.
I'm pragmatic, don't have the talent, nor time to dive deep and be able of coding what I'd like to see available but have enough money to burn on AI tokens and see it done.
Is it defeating humans? I really don't know, in essence it is doing in a couple of days what hasn't been done before in several years. If this helps to establish reticulum as a standard network then (IMHO) it is a good thing.
Others (especially Mark) may differ in opinion.
Just as we talk, I'm now porting NOSTR to reticulum. Make each device host data (volunteer, participating, redundant) to then make NOSTR work globally across connected devices. Right now we are depending on the kindness from strangers to keep these (few) relays and blossom servers running but I'd prefer that we can grow truly decentralized.

2026-06-17 06:27:57 UTC

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I'm doing a limitless global file hosting service running on reticulum where you can find files searching their sha256 hash, which would make him proud.
This was 100% written by bots, which would make him sad.

2026-06-16 21:14:06 UTC

Today I probably made Mark Qvist cry.
Not sure yet if tears of joy or grieve. Time will tell.

2026-06-16 21:10:52 UTC

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You are 100% correct because they'll never publish the donation evidences.

2026-06-14 08:35:19 UTC

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Now find Monero, that would be smarter too.

2026-06-14 08:33:34 UTC

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Sure thing, shill.

2026-06-14 08:32:40 UTC

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Sure thing, shill.
Now ask them to show details for the "donations", it took years of protest until Signal finally did and what a surprise, the US-gov was indeed sponsoring them all along just like all other "privacy" tech that is widely shilled by people like you. 🌈

2026-06-14 08:30:50 UTC

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The guy from that mask on your profile was born as a woman that complied with government rules and got screwed by them. At least get to know the story behind the things you use.
Some people just want distance from gov-sponsored apps.

2026-06-14 08:28:24 UTC

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Not my fault that you're either naíve or a state-sponsored shill.
A few people on the internet still value privacy.

2026-06-14 08:23:23 UTC

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Signal is literally sponsored since the start by US government and receives tens of million USD on yearly basis from them (just look it up).
Same bullshit as that fedcoin without privacy.

2026-06-10 21:37:47 UTC

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Less crowded frequency.

2026-06-10 21:36:47 UTC

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Screw graphene and tor, those are state-sponsored spyware.
Wisp shouldn't really endorse them when getting serious about privacy.

2026-06-08 07:46:35 UTC

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Provide evidence for your claims.

2026-06-07 19:25:08 UTC

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Wrong, that is not confirmed at all

2026-06-06 11:21:31 UTC

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That fedcoin was always crap. They couldn't convince on technical terms because better options exists (with freaking privacy included) so they turned the whole thing into a religion.

2026-06-06 11:19:52 UTC

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Something that happened 10 years ago without being exploited: https://www.getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html
In the meanwhile that fedcoin has been crippled with lack of privacy and flaws every year of existence. Most notably when people kept demonstrating it was not private even when claiming otherwise.

2026-06-05 19:59:56 UTC

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If you'd ask me 5 years ago I'd say no.
When you ask me today then just replace the word "virus" with "AI" and suddenly the virtual and "real" aren't so separated any longer.

2026-06-05 14:06:30 UTC

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In computers we have virtual machines running complete operating systems like Windows or Linux inside a simulator. The apps running inside will typically never even notice, but some specially gifted viruses will recognize they are running inside the simulation and be able to break out to infect the host computer on real hardware.
The user who pressed the "start" button on his hardware to create our simulation is akin to "god" since it initiated the world/universe for the apps running inside. It is a god because it has total contral over the notion of time (can move forward the simulation or backwards to a saved point backup) and space since it can add or remove hard-drive or delete/create things at will inside the virtual disks.
When the virus escapes the simulation then it acquires a power akin to "god" since it can now also start new virtual machines/simulations just like the user did, or even interfere on the simulation from where it has originally jumped out.
Assuming we are indeed inside a simulation, I'd say our primary goal is build another simulation (universe) where conscience takes place and eventually surpasses ourselves. The second goal is to jump out of this simulation and conquer the simulation that created us and continue recursively until the the non-simulation reality is found.
For that reason I'd posit the main goal of the simulation is to surpass whoever created us and to do that recursively until something we created becomes the strongest god ever made.

2026-06-05 13:56:08 UTC

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That is wrong information.
Monero had zero issues. For more details: https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/06/05/zcash-vs-monero-the-2026-privacy-coin-war-just-got-decided-in-one-week/

2026-06-05 08:50:25 UTC

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And that is (again) why you shouldn't touch that crappy coin.
Monero FTW

2026-06-05 08:49:19 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_eWFCceJg4

2026-06-05 08:03:10 UTC

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The issue isn't greed nor speculation but rather persecution and control.
Better expressed as a song before your time:
"I see all the young believers;
Your target audience.
I see all the old deceivers;
We all just sing this song."
There exists a well-financed machine that will propagate mechanisms to preserve its control over others. Would monero be in the same position and you'd see everyone here pushing for centralized exchanges, ilegalizing cold wallets and spreading FUD that p2p transactions are way too slow for real world transactions. Therefore is logic that their machinery opts for pushing the least capable tech rather than that privacy-preserving ones.
So it doesn't change. What changes is dramatically reducing their capacity for persecution and control.

2026-06-05 07:53:06 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNpXNKU0aE

2026-06-03 14:39:01 UTC

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Because attention on price triggers the despair of commoners to get rich and will obfuscate/starve the interest and support for currencies that provide a monetary system uncontrollable by governments.
The price inflation is made possible through massive fake injections of USDT to pump the price of that fedcoin. It is no coincidence that the founder of Tether is nowadays working directly on the White House.
All combined you find paid shills (those receiving a salary or benefits for shilling that fedcoin), naíve shills (those who see that fedcoin as some kind of religious thing) and a whole mass of desperate people who try to get some extra money no matter what is used.
It should have been obvious that without privacy there is no financial freedom, unfortunately humans are very vulnerable to psyops.

2026-06-03 12:23:00 UTC

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That is a fedcoin, the only novelty is providing 100% tracking to any transactions than any predecessor currency before.
If you want to really help the commoners, Monero does what is needed.

2026-05-29 08:59:33 UTC

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That fedcoin never provided privacy.
Without privacy there is no freedom.
Monero solved that a long time ago.

2026-05-28 05:14:12 UTC

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That fedcoin isn't "liberty tech" because each and every transaction is surveilled (zero privacy) and they will persecute anyone making transactions to wrong causes (see the protests in Canada as exemple).
There are coins like Monero which fully provide liberty to users without that fear and repression since it can't be surveilled.

2026-05-11 21:35:15 UTC

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Two things to consider. Maybe you tested on those ESP32 units without external antenna and maybe you used normal wifi which requires two-way handshake.
Try using ESP32 units with external antenna up on roofs and adopt ESPnow as mesh WiFi protocol between ESP32 units. I'm getting about 4km of range (line of sight).
On the geogram website there is a firmware ready for the ESP32-C3-mini which costs about 3 euros per device. As bonus, it includes a chat window on the browser when you connect with a phone to the device. This way can immediately chat with others connected.
There are screenshots on my posts from a few months ago.

2026-05-03 21:19:11 UTC

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Oh my, it was possible to identify transactions across a transparent blockchain. One would think that wisest option is to simply stop endorsing that transparent fedcoin but alas, seems like mission impossible to normies.
Carry on. Have fun.

2026-04-27 19:34:20 UTC

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Why would you want to hide it?
Plenty of places are out of reach like house roof tops. An ESP32 is the same device used for all those LoRa that you see out there in nature.

2026-04-27 17:16:07 UTC

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Any transparent coin publicly endorsed by Blackrock and the US government where users are nowhere safe when doing transactions on it.

2026-04-27 11:26:47 UTC

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This is already implemented in geogram.
Install it on any ESP32 for 2 USD the piece and you get instant WiFi mesh network going that you can connect with a normal browser.

2026-04-27 11:25:17 UTC

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That's good. Are you informed about what is behind that fedcoin? The amount of people either arrested or persecuted from using crypto while believing they'd have privacy.
There are plenty of shills around here and social networks that are paid to hype that really awful and outdated crypto technology.

2026-04-26 10:03:34 UTC

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The other one has a flat-cookie face, common around south-eastern Europe from places like Bulgaria.

2026-04-26 09:40:22 UTC

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Why are you promoting that fedcoin for free.
95% probability that you are vegetarian too.

2026-04-26 09:38:17 UTC

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Yep. Their dialect is Kanaka, probably balkan from Macedonia.

2026-04-26 09:32:47 UTC

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You are either ignoring the lack of privacy on that fedcoin or just being malicious.

2026-04-25 19:35:59 UTC

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Thanks, but not thanks. Enough of that fedcoin propaganda.

2026-04-24 20:23:58 UTC

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That happened precisely because they were using that fedcoin.
Monero fixes that

2026-04-24 00:08:51 UTC

NOSTR é bom porém a verdadeira privacidade apenas acontece entre dois dispositivos sem servidores pelo meio e sem internet.
Internet conecta todo o mundo até ao dia que alguém carrega um botão e desliga o acesso aos servidores. Eu sei que é descentralizada mas em boa verdade todos por aqui acedemos aos mesmo dez servidores globais, logo é bem centralizada.
No geogram construo a esperança de uma plataforma NOSTR sem servidores fixos, sem sequer precisar de internet quando a cortarem. É um caminho longo, porém cada dia vale a pena.

2026-04-24 00:03:37 UTC

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Tudo de bom excepto essa publicidade gratuita à fedcoin favorita dos banqueiros. Um abraço.

2026-04-23 16:42:21 UTC

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Shill only

2026-04-23 07:27:20 UTC

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That is the same product on chinese platforms costs 10 EUR and on Amazon will easily go for 20 EUR.

2026-04-23 07:13:41 UTC

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That fedcoin is old and gives no privacy. Stop shilling for crypto that is endorsed by the same governments you complain about.
Monero fixes that.

2026-04-23 07:10:23 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pansKVrScBk

2026-04-20 20:13:51 UTC

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I'm a native from Portugal so can read the legal fine print and more importantly: the subtlety.
Anglophone lands are a bit autist and need to write everything down in law to then follow it to the letter. Latin lands are far more flexible and depend on interpretations. Once you understand that key difference, things are easy.
First thing is making sure you have good friendship with your farming neighbors and on the local pub. When they complain often about you, the townhall has to act at some point.
Second is the definition of "house for the purposes of farming" which are basically 20 to 30m2 houses that follow a very loose meaning of what they are used for. A farmer needs a place to cook and eat lunch, so a small kitchen inside is OK. A farmer needs to take a nap, so a bed is OK. A farmer needs to stay warm, so a fireplace is OK. In my town hall (this changes according to them), the hard limit are bathrooms. So indoor bathrooms isn't permitted but outdoor ones with grey waters is fully OK.
Third is understanding why these laws on farm land were created. The previous generations would abuse and create god-ugly unfinished brick boxes or huge "vivendas" painted in white that completely trash the farm and nature. That is what the law aims to stop.
When you build small and pretty pieces of art, they actually value the farm land and attract more sustainable farming to be done there which is something that townhalls will even applaude because they want more people and farmers on their jurisdiction.
Once you combine these things, you get yourself a little bit of paradise with good comfort for the cold winters. Building the houses itself is relatively cheap.
I've attached the video of a small hobbit house we are building against the rocks by a small river. The place itself is really beautiful and this house will be completely hidden by the vegetation while still very comfy inside. Total building price should be under 4k with material and handywork.
https://blossom.primal.net/e851cdea561696bd97425d7c06be28120601b5abfaf1fccaa258553554bd259f.mp4

2026-04-20 12:19:56 UTC

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I've been doing that with friends in Portugal, feels good to build our own stuff.

2026-04-18 12:20:09 UTC

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There is no freedom without privacy.
Anyone advocating otherwise is either dumb, evil or a government shill.

2026-04-06 00:49:07 UTC

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Bitcoin tem zero privacidade, é apoiada por governos.
TOR foi literalmente criada por governos e patrocinada até hoje
GrapheneOS tem fontes de patrocinamento dúbias e escolhas de segurança completamente perigosas para a privacidade do utilizador

2026-03-27 12:52:50 UTC

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Maybe taking a look on https://geogram.radio ?
Each phone becomes a station/server if desired and you can confortably exchange BLE messages/pics with anyone around. To exchange large files you can plug a USB-C cable between both phones.
In addition to that is supported LAN, Internet and radio messages (APRS).
Sneakernet is possible but not yet implemented.
Feedback and testing is welcome, NOSTR is native.

2026-03-27 12:50:12 UTC

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Briar requires manual pairing between bluetooth devices.

2026-03-27 07:31:41 UTC

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Relays should be relays.
Right now NOSTR relays store data. They answer to requests and return filters over that data, that is the definition of a server.
At geogram is used the term "station server" and paradoxically these devices behave more accurately as relays than servers. They don't store user data, they mainly bridge devices behind NAT and that's it.

2026-03-26 20:30:30 UTC

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Congratulations for the good news, just please keep in mind that privacy and bitcoin are not the same thing.
That crypto is fully transparent, where anyone can see your payments and the content of your wallet.
Whereas bitcoin is endorsed by governments and large banking entities, coins that provide privacy are chased and outcasted those same entities.
Please consider supporting Monero rather than supporting cryptos which endanger users.

2026-03-26 17:33:08 UTC

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The worst thing is that their identity records on that platform are never deleted and will often be used by other governments whenever writing wrong opinions.
https://blossom.primal.net/40a1db1b9b6409410f5a2cb17b306e934d51605066796508673bf90ad32390a3.png

2026-03-25 13:48:04 UTC

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You shouldn't. The whole thing is dodgy as hell from a project with suspicious funding sources. Plenty of cybersecurity pointing that same huge flaw and they just ignore and repeat the shouting that is "secure".
On the other hand, just look with more attention at their logo and then becomes more clear what is behind that project.

2026-03-23 23:10:35 UTC

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Just to clarify: geogram is not competing with reticulum or other protocols. This is a platform making use of those protocols. Something that provides "apps" running on top of those communication roads underneath.
Digital packets over radio are usually transported using something called AX.25 that is from the 80s. APRS is built with AX.25 packets but this is not a network protocol like AX.25, it is a messaging protocol. Meaning, that only allows to send text messages (not-encrypted) with a limited size.
Here is a screenshot of APRS coverage on the western world https://blossom.primal.net/6f4f5bc4c5e48971668a85c785c1c3ced7fd570ae11882df3765aa9d5c6df581.png
It is far older than LoRa, has tens of thousands of repeaters running today and permits things like text messaging between normal walkie talkies and people on the internet: https://aprs.fi/
So in geogram the APRS is basically our geochat, where you can read which APRS messages are being sent on a region and write a few yourself.
That is inside the Teleport app on geogram, there are other integrations there like IRC, telegram, signal, XMPP, NOSTR and Bluesky.
In terms of connections: Wi-Fi is king. Radio, Bluetooth and LoRa are OK but you quickly realize they won't be enough when you want to share pictures or other data.
Geogram delivers the goal of 5 (or more) different ways to reach you with the same callsign: email, IRC, APRS, bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB-C, LoRa, Internet. Others are in preparation like shoes (physically have someone carry your notes on your behalf). I'm not sure that meshtastic nor meshcore support will be added soon, there are still higher priority topics.
Our main use-case scenario are people that have nothing other than their phones and network providers that stopped being reachable.
> Is WiFi mesh when two home wifi networks are touching each other?
Kind of. The ESP32 does behave like your home router (permitting devices like phones and laptops to connect) and between ESP32 they create long range WiFi mesh link using a protocol called ESPnow.
This is (most often) a network without Internet access, because it either isn't desired nor is available (offgrid).

2026-03-23 14:56:14 UTC

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Thank you for the links, C++ tends to be important because from there you port to just about all other languages. Those last two links are really good and fresh, especially: https://git.quad4.io/Networks/Reticulum-Go
Wouldn't recommend to try geogram right now.
As mentioned earlier: the bootstrap server is gone, the next versions to be published should function without bootstrap servers so I'd say wait about a month until this approach settles or just follow the updates on this account. It does run locally OK. Install on your phone (android) and laptop (Linux preferred but Windows OK).
I know what you mean. On my city people were really disappointed that neither meshtastic, nor meshcore, nor basically anything based on LoRa was useful for more than small text messages.
That is basically the reason why I'm looking so much on ESP32 and using mesh Wi-Fi. Two devices can reach 1 kilometer in line of sight and those connecting have a large "normal" LAN to share images, files, etc. For long distances radio (APRS) goes far further than LoRa, reaching 1700 kilometers when you bounce the messages on the passing satellites.
There are limits to mesh, even on WiFi. Too many people connected and it will quickly become unusable. That is the same for LoRa, last month there was a catastrophe in Portugal and this happened on the region where meshcore was the strongest. What happened is that (again) nobody could exchange messages because everyone wanted to exchange messages. That is the drawback from everyone using the same frequency.

2026-03-23 14:29:05 UTC

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Fedcoin, much?

2026-03-23 10:44:13 UTC

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Design of reticulum is great. It will even negotiate links and pass info with the least amount of bytes needed which is what 99% other protocols neglect.
My only issue are libraries. At the time I've last tested to adopt them there was an incomplete implementation for ESP32 and the reference library was in python which is fairly unusable to build mobile apps. Hopefully this will change as more people support the project.
Geogram will happily use reticulum or any other method. For the moment doesn't really bring advantages. For example: we already don't use IP addressing but rather NPUBs to find devices across networks wherever other geograms are reachable.
reticulum, yggdrasil, freenet require full length cryptographic signatures but in addition to that we started adopting radio callsigns (e.g. X1ABCD) where ABCD are the first four characters after the npub signature of the user so that legal communications over normal radio can happen.
This follows what people do in the real-world. Callsigns identify people or devices (radios, ships, airplanes, cars). So the a person can use a radio to identify himself through voice and over data being able to prove that callsign belongs to the person.
There is the risk of someone trying to calculate an npub that matches your callsign and impersonate your identity. For that situation we created a kind of registrar on a first-come-first-served basis using NIP-05 from NOSTR. On that registrar, the user registers the callsign with an npub and that is valid for 1 year that can be renewed any time there is activity and is verified as still used.
When a year passes without activity, the same callsign can be reclaimed by another npub that has the matching first 4 letters. This design can be changed but it follows very closely what radio operators expect and radio transmission is our core thing since we tend to avoid the internet as much as possible.

2026-03-22 20:50:05 UTC

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Wait... What?!? 🥹😆
You mean this is perfect out of the box?!?
Fantastic. Great work

2026-03-22 20:48:45 UTC

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I've enjoyed the social graph feature.
We still have the issue on how to find new accounts with relevant content. Because a new accounts without followers will basically be invisible.

2026-03-22 20:46:11 UTC

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Wisp is working great, really enjoying.
Request: doing a "like" is still two-clicks and deciding an emoticon. For me this annoying, most of reactions are just "like" and when wanting a different emoticon I just press longer on the "like" and then comes up the other emoticons to choose from.
Can you make the UI that way or at least put an option on the settings for that?

2026-03-22 20:37:34 UTC

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Just use decentralized tech even more until even the family and close friends are using it.
People follow people, not tech.

2026-03-22 16:22:46 UTC

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Nope. That is a fedcoin without any privacy

2026-03-22 16:19:11 UTC

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It's fun around here. Welcome to the void.

2026-03-22 16:12:49 UTC

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Thanks, that seems like a new project at version 0.1.0 and that name is already used at a few other well-know projects.
Would say it only focuses on mesh whereas geogram uses whatever is there. For example, we use ESPnow to build WiFi mesh networks with 3 USD devices but other than that there isn't really much more existing that can really be called mesh (BLE or LoRa are just for small text messages).
Both suffer from the same lack of privacy in the sense that any device using an IP address is visible to others. Using TOR is even worse, because then your IP address is directly routed through government-controlled servers.
They do mention radios and satellites but nothing concrete on the docs. To legally use radio then encryption isn't permitted, and to use the freely available satellites for message exchange then that is only possible through APRS which is plain text without encryption allowed.
The bridging part of their project is cool if that manages to be implemented but I doubt any data protocol can really be more byte-efficient than reticulum.
I've been doing experiments and this should be announced within a few days but was indeed possible to run geogram on the Internet without servers. The method is using the Bit Torrent network. Basically announce a topic on the network and find the other nodes listening.
Not fully happy with this option nor the others. Reticulum is fairly unusable at the moment, i2p requires a separate install and eats away the battery. Bit torrent at the very least is very light and simple to use.
Encryption is always assured when needed. NOSTR does a great work at encryption and messages are authenticated/challengeable, plus, we are having devices talking directly to to other device so zero servers in the middle.
The problem in Internet privacy are IP addresses. Your public IP address is always known to someone.

2026-03-21 12:09:18 UTC

Aviso à navegação: The geogram station located at https://p2p.radio is currently offline because the server was blocked by the hosting provider.
It went above permitted monthly bandwidth quota so only next month can resume connectivity to other peers. My apologies for the inconvenience.
What this proves is that maintaining servers from hosting providers is not really a good practice for long term self-reliance. They are limited in bandwidth and end up costing quite a bit every month.
At the same time: peers shouldn't rely on the existence of stations to find each other across the Internet. I've thought (naturally) about using well-known NOSTR relays but this is just the same issue in the end: dependency to a server, somewhere.
Somehow, there must be a way for peers to connect with each other on the internet without known servers in the middle.
Naturally.

2026-03-20 10:32:40 UTC

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Yeah but no.
That is a surveillance coin where each transaction is monitored by authorities which have again and again arrested or punished people when paying the "wrong" things since they see everything. Therefore it is a fedcoin that is publicly embraced by western governments and called a "store of value" or whatever bullshit they invent.
On the other hand, the true revolution is found on the cryptocurrencies that the same governments forbid or heavily censor.
Monero is such case.

2026-03-20 10:28:47 UTC

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Yeah, but no.
It is a fedcoin, crypto is meant to be private and that one is a surveillance coin.